Guildford Four

The Guildford Four was a group of three Irishmen and one Englishwoman, who were arrested in 1975 after being accused of carrying out the Guildford pub bombings for the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Paul Hill, Paddy Armstrong, Gerry Conlon, and Carole Richardson were arrested by British police and sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism; the judge wanted to execute Hill, who was also accused of the Kings Arms pub bombing and the murder of a British Army soldier. They were tortured into "confessing" their guilt and frequently moved from prison to prison in the middle of the night, and they were not released until 1989, when the Court of Appeal in London discovered that they were innocent. Richardson died of cancer in 2013, Conlon died of the same disease in 2014, and Hill moved to the United States, while Armstrong stayed in Northern Ireland.